I agree with SE. A bit off topic, but I don't know if horses produce gas the same way as cows. I believe it has to do with the way they digest and use their stomachs. Maybe someone has a bit more knowledge of animal biology to answer that.
lol...as soon as someones says cows contribute to global warming by shitting, is when I completely tune them out.
you know, because there wasn't any horses before..... The oil from the earth thing is abiogenic petroleum theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin It's one of these things that will be utter nonsense right up till the minute they prove it. Although in all honesty it's probably just wishfull thinking. Also nuclear reactors are like uber-safe nowadays and are made of purest awesome, also nuclear waste it's half as dangerous as people make it out to be, and what you cant reprocess you just stick in a hole, which is essentially where you got it from. Thing like pebble bed reactors cannot melt down. Also wave power is teh awesome, considering I live on an island I'm surprised everyone is fannying about with wind farms when we could be world leaders in wave power.
Quality post pypes, thanks for the info. I didn't say I believed it necessarily, but rather a really interesting, and possible theory. I totally agree with you on the nuclear stuff.
Ask the Navajo how 'safe' nuclear power is. Look up the Church Rock Disaster of 1978, where 90 million gallons of uranium laced water contaminated one of their only water sources. The effects of which are still being felt to this very day, and will for another thousand years.
I hope theyre destroyed, no matter what we do to save the environmanent and reduce greenhouse gasses, were still going to destroy ourselves anyway, so why not drive petrol guzzling beasty things like Ford cobras and mustangs, they look good, theyre incredibly powerful and ballsy things. I say fuck the electric car.
the general concept of the electric car, hydrogen car, renewable energy car, etc is a good idea, but you will always have guys and gals like me who will always pay homage to the V8, american muscle car, mmmmmmm muscle car
I think it's ABSOLUTELY ridiculous that the federal government is regulating what cars can be produced (GM and Chrysler anyway). Out of the entire fleet they manufacture they all have to equal a certain MPG (average). So if everyone in America wanted to by an SUV, theoretically speaking here, the car company would have to manufacturer shit loads of extra hybrids to make the average jump up, thus wasting shit loads of money and driving themselves further into automaker oblivion. When did the free market stop dictating what companies produces and the federal government start? Wait, that was like 6 months ago when the feds bailed them out with money they created. It's total bullshit. And I will go as far to say, at the risk of pissing loads of people off, that anyone that disagrees with this ideology AND lives in America, is ignorant and a hypocrite.
i laughed at most of the replies here... im not going to get into it, but let me just say that horses and cows have completely different digestive systems and im quite sure that horses to not emit nearly as much methane as cows do. second, a vast amount of electrical power (something like 40-60 percent in BC, despite us making enough hydro-electric power to export) comes from coal plants and similar fossil fuel sources. so you can pump that juice into an electric car, but dont try to tell me youre being carbon neutral or anything like that. third, theres a hell of a lot more to "global warming", pollution, etc. than just personal vehicles. while i agree that our consumption of gas is ridiculous, especially for huge urban suvs and the like, there are a ton of other things you can (and imo should) do aswell to reduce your carbon footprint. buying local for example. think of all the trucks, ships and planes bringing food to your grocery stores every day from halfway around the world. north americal consmmerism is just as bad. buying new toys, cloths, electronics fucking constantly is disgusting. just think about the manufacturing of those things. things go on in china that would be violently opposed here, but we perpatuate it by buying ridiculous amounts of things made in china.
There are two schools of thought that are evident in all of the arguments we see here; service to self and service to others. Time for all of us to determine which of those we choose to be, regardless of how 'cool' your precious toys are.
That is patently wrong. We can develop technology without destroying the planet, in fact, technology is only 'advancing' if it respects the planet.
I'll probably get an electric if I can ever afford to buy a car that runs on electricity. Or something. Hydrogen?
Not really no, but it's just a nice piece of rhetoric for appearing to have the moral high ground. You can go a long way down the "for the benefit of others" road and you essentially end up at utilitarianism, which isn't a thing I think anyone would claim to support.
Is that so, pypes? So, I'm only interested in appearing to have 'moral high ground' because I believe we owe it to the earth and to future generations to find the cleanest, most sustainable ways to live our lives? I didn't realize my own illusions of granduer. Thank you so much for pointing them out to me. What an ass I am.
